Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 152
He buried his head in the pillows, his thoughts grew confused, and he fell asleep.
Who acts: firework, thoughts · What happens: bury, grow, fall, think · To what, where: head, pillows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firework, thoughts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 buried | nsubj |
| 2 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buried | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pillows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pillows | det |
| 7 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 buried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 buried | conj |
| 12 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | firework | firework's head | the pillows | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in pillow=Destination | |||
| 2 | grow | past | firework's thoughts | confused property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | firework | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think | firework | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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